Magan Vernon: For the past few years I’ve wanted to write a book with a
conservative guy and liberal girl, but just couldn’t come up with a plot, so I
put it aside. During the presidential election an episode of NEW GIRL aired in
which Schmidt pretended to be the imaginary sixth son of Mitt Romney, Thugg and
some girls that used to be part of their local college Republican chapter. That
got my wheels turning and I thought about a conservative governor’s son going
to college and what it would be like for someone with the opposite views living
next door to him. Trey Chapman was born.

Holly: Is this a stand alone or will there be a sequel?

Magan Vernon: This is a planned stand
alone. I have been working on a companion novel with the character’s two best
friends, but there are no current plans to continue on with the story at this
time.

Holly: If you had to cast the characters in a movie, who
would play them?

Magan Vernon: Always one of my favorite
questions. For Trey it would be a mixture of Max Greenfield and Colton Haynes
(if somehow science could make them have a baby. For Monica, Emma Stone has
that spunkiness yet vulnerability. For John
Boy, wrestler The Miz is the first person to come to mind. For Monica’s
best friend Melanie, Emmy Rossum is the closest I’ve found. And I have to admit
that Trey’s dad, the governor, was inspired by a certain governor and former
Republican presidential candidate from MA.

Holly: Did you plot this novel out or write from the hip?

Magan Vernon: A little bit of both. I
actually wrote the first half on my computer and sent to my Alpha reader and
then I wasn’t sure what I wanted to happen in the middle so I wrote the last
half on my iPad since that was what was in my head. It eventually all worked
together.

Holly: What books do you have coming out next?

Magan Vernon: I’m due with my second child
at the end of April, so I’m trying not to plan too much, but I do have the
sequel to my New Adult title, My Paper Heart, coming out this summer titled On
Paper Wings. It continues Libby and Blaine’s story and will focus more on her eating disorder
and his commitment issues. After that I’d really like to get out a companion
novel to The Only Exception about Melanie and John Boy.

Fiercely liberal Monica Remy
prefers to blend in. Despite her tattoos, piercings, and outspoken personality,
she transferred to Central to escape—before she finds out that her next door
neighbor is the uber conservative governor son, Trey Chapman.

No matter how hard she tries to avoid Trey, he still finds a way to get under
her skin. Monica can’t stand his crisp white shirts or his staunch views on
women. But she can’t help counting every freckle on his face and wondering what
it would feel like to have him stop talking politics and kiss her.

A class debate project forces the unlikely pair to work together, and the
political lines are blurred in late-night make out sessions. But despite their
fiery chemistry, Trey’s politics threatens to smother their relationship for
good.

"Here, let me help you
with that." I stopped a few feet away only to have the box lifted from my
hand like it was nothing more than a bag of feathers. I looked up to be greeted
by a head of perfectly gelled, sandy
brown hair and a blinding white smile. My eyes trailed over his crisp, white
dress shirt, tucked into a pair of dress pants. Obviously not the normal
college wear. I figured he was the manager or something. A tall manager with a
dimpled smile that I couldn’t stop staring at.

"Oh, thanks. I wasn't
sure I was going to make it." I returned the smile, but obviously mine
hadn't been soaked with bleach like his. I didn't want to give him the wrong
idea, so I cleared my throat. "My apartment is right here, so you can just
set the box down."

"Apartment 13B, ey?"

I nodded. "Yes, I'm
just moving in. I'm Monica. Monica Remy."

He shifted the box to the
side and extended his hand. "Then I guess we are neighbors. I’m glad to
meet you. I'm Trey Chapman."

"Trey Chapman?" My
throat felt like it went completely dry. I had to swallow hard to get some
saliva back before I could speak. "As in Governor Chapman's son?"

He kept his big grin on his
face. "The one."

I should have recognized him
right off the bat. He and his brothers were like a constant shadow during the
governor’s campaign. All three Chapman boys stood behind him with their sandy
brown hair and tight-lipped smiles while the future governor discussed his
plans for a new Illinois. One that included a new contraception bill, his
pride and joy, that changed the usual liberal, Chicago politics of Illinois and
had women’s leagues up in arms. It didn’t mean he stopped his precious bill and
just said it was “what was best for his state.”

Of course I only got a brief
glimpse of Trey Chapman when he was on TV, but I didn’t remember him being this
attractive. Or having so many freckles. I had to shake that thought out of my
head. I couldn’t let one guy with a dimpled smile phase me. He was the
governor’s son for God’s sake.

“I assume you know of him?”
He raised his eyebrows.

“Uh, yeah, can’t forget the
guy that basically stomped on every policy Illinois had in place for his own conservative agenda.”

“Ouch, Miss Remy, that seems
pretty harsh to say about a guy you haven’t actually met. If you want, I can
always give you some literature to read up on regarding his policies and plans
for the state.”

I knew all too well about
his dad’s policies and not one of them I supported. I didn’t know where his son
got the balls to try and jam his father’s political agenda down by throat, but
I wasn’t a fan of it.

Quickly, I reached for the
key in my pocket, unlocked the door, and then I snatched the box out of Trey's
arms. "Well, it's good to meet you, Trey, and you seem like a really nice
guy, but that doesn't mean I'll ever support your dad."

Before he could get in a
word edgewise I threw open the door and slammed it behind me as soon as I was
inside. I dropped the box down at my feet and leaned back against the door.

Magan Vernon is a Young
Adult and New Adult writer who lives with her family in the insurance
capital of the world. She is in a very serious, fake relationship
with Adam Lambert and constantly asks her husband to wear guyliner. He
still refuses. She also believes her husband is secretly an alien,
disguised as a southern gentleman.

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